Oral Question·Prime Minister
“If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 13 June.”
Tabled: 7 June 2018Answered: 13 June 2018
Asked by
Brendan O'Hara
Scottish National Party — Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber
Answering Minister
the Prime Minister
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Housing and Planning (Matthew Pennycook)
Water companies are not statutory consultees on individual planning applications, but they are consulted as part of the preparation of local development plans. On 26 January, the Government declared a moratorium on any new statutory consultees and announced a review of the existing statutory consultee arrangements. A consultation on proposals designed to limit the scope of statcons to where advice is strictly necessary and to remove entirely a limited number of them will be published in the near future.